S2-E8 - Makalu Gao: The Taiwanese Climber Who Survived a Night on Mt. Everest

The high number of deaths during the 1996 Mt. Everest climbing
season supplied a tragic plotline for books, movies, and
documentaries. Taiwanese climbers did not come out of these
accounts looking competent -- to say the least -- but the record
may need to be corrected. Here's the story of Makalu Gao, who
survived a death sentence: an overnight stay at the top of the
world -- without food or oxygen -- as well as the tale of
numerous heroes who helped save Gao, and others, over
those deadly days in May 1996.